Take That, Physics! The First Clip From ‘The Wolverine’ Brings Claws To A Knife Fight.

The first clip from The Wolverine is out, and it’s a fight scene between Wolverine and the Yakuza taking place atop a bullet train in Japan. It also has the distinction of saying, “Let’s be friends, Physics” before pulling Physics in close for a warm embrace, then thrusting a dagger up its ribcage and gently whispering, “F–k you so much, Physics.”

That analogy got away from me. What I’m saying is, Wolverine and the Yakuza guys are obeying regular laws of physics for most of the fight. Then Wolverine somehow ceases traveling forward at the same speed as the train upon jumping in the air, but only the last time he jumps, not those other times, because screw physics and continuity. Wolverine claws in the face! HIS RAGE KNOWS NO PHYSICS.

The problem is since he is on the train, he has the same forward momentum that the train has, so diving towards the guy in the back will not make him fly 4 train cars, he would fly 4 feet… and then fall.
If you don’t believe me, next time you are on a train or plane, dive towards the back and let me know if you start flying or just fall on your face.

Ive always felt that arguing about physics in movies (Star Trek, Star Wars, comic films) is just not important. Im watching a movie about a man thats almost immortal with the rarest substance outside of vibranium or whatever…physics isnt a real sticking point.

Right?! The only thing the scene is really missing is a part where the train crashes into a barrier launching Wolverine into the air where he catches Michelle Rodriquez who was launched from a similar train going the same direction and they both fly into the soft embrace of a car hood were both are absolutely fine

The biggest problem with that fight scene… and every wolverine fight scene is he only uses his claws to block guns or swords, or to miss someone and make a giant slash in the wall.
I know why they won’t do it, but a dude who’s coolest atribute are insanely sharp claws, really needs to be lopping body parts off, like Kill Bill Vol2 level of mess.

OK guys, the physics you all are talking about are the physics-in-a-vacuum that you learned in high school in order to ignore other variables. So please, let’s not start assuming that that type of physics in any way imitates real-world physics. Granted, on the INSIDE of a plane or train you preserve momentum essentially perfectly. However, outside is a whole other conundrum, which neither I nor anyone here so far has the wind-tunnel physics experience to actually figure out and calculate based on a movie clip without hard measurements. I would say that it IS true that there is an inconsistency between jumps, because the effects of air (which has been vortexed and all kinds of crazy crap by the speed and shape of the Shinkansen) when the body is OUTSIDE and free of the train should be virtually the same no matter which direction the character jumps (assuming it jumps the same way). There will of course also be a factor of wind resistance depending on the shape and vector of the body in reference to the wind, coefficient of drag, if you will, as well as the general vector of the wind at a particular slice of space above the train. But for those of you familiar with Wolverine, you should know he’s been known to make some spectacular leaps, and leaping 4 train cars probably isn’t much of a problem for the superhero no matter how fast it’s going. Conclusion? It’s too hard to figure out the real physics or discount fictional character ability, so stop acting like a know it all and enjoy the damn movie.

How about this: Wolvy’s fat ass contains adamantium and that little runt is known to be exceptionally heavy so… fuck all that and honestly this movie is looking really dumb, the kinda dumb that is Fox’s wheelhouse.

Not to say that anything could really be worse than the visual atrocity of the first movie, but still, I agree with Stuntcock up there in that this looks effing dumb.